Michael Kistner
Buy and hold repairs
Hey BP Forum! When you purchase a buy and hold property do you believe in making only necessary repairs or do you go in and gut the place even if it doesn’t help your ROI? I’ve been going back and forth on thi...
Fran Flanagan
Dealing with Punitive Local Ordinances
The local borough where I own my rental property has come up with a real doozy of a new ordinance to go into effect this January. I'm fairly sure that they wanted a new law to deal with a few problem properties, prob...
Chanté Owens
Sacrifices to get into RE
Hopefully this is in the right section. Mods, feel free to move if it's not.
I've been reading on this site now for well over 8 months, and recently joined so I could communicate with some of these great mi...
Mitchell Pudelski
Toilet running for months. How do I recoup the cost?
I have a duplex with long-term tenants who pay on-time every month. Problem: water bill has quadrupled for each of the last four months. Nobody has an answer. Each reports no leaky faucets or toilets. Upstairs tenant ...
Kim Coleman
First Time Baltimore City Landlord - What to do 1st, 2nd & Last!
Hello BP Community. I hope to be closing on my first Baltimore City investment property soon. I'm of course overwhelmed by all the various things I need to do get ready for a tenant. I'd like to query the very know...
Jane Istre
Room rentals to blue collar construction workers
I have a 3/2 that I am considering renting by the room. It also has 2 living room areas the tenants would share a kitchen. It's not going to be a vacation rental more like a college rental. Basically just a place for...
Rob K.
New furnace regulations - applies to all of us in the Northern United States
http://gilsonusa.com/sites/all/themes/gilson/pdf/ACCA-Northerners-ReplaceFurnace1.pdf
My furnace guy called me about this today. I hadn't heard this before. Any furnace installed after May 1, 2013 needs to be at leas...
Laura Yoerger
Deferring costs of Solar Panels
Does anybody know if it is legal to make tenants pay the monthly solar panel lease fee and what the solar company is charging for the electricity generated? The lease that the property manager set up, that the tenants...
Austin Davis
Thinking about Solar and Geothermal for 4plexes
Hello!I will start by saying that my goal is to have enough cash flow to support my family if I didn't have a job. To do this, I obviously want to purchase more properties, but also make the correct investments in m...
Nikki Cuozzo
Underground oil tank
Hello! If there is an underground oil tank, is the seller legally responsible to remove it before the buyer acquires the property? Or can it be negotiated within the contract? This property is in Connecticut. Thank you!